Aurora 4x
C# Aurora => C# Bureau of Design => Topic started by: Marski on December 17, 2020, 12:17:25 AM
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Title says it all.
Using 500 ton and below size ships as early surveying vessels. Cheap and fast to build.
The three ship classes belong to the same program, each based on the original "Buran" class but updated with improvements in hull and range.
Buran Class
Buran class Geological Survey Craft 500 tons 22 Crew 167.2 BP TCS 10 TH 6 EM 0
590 km/s Armour 1-5 Shields 0-0 HTK 3 Sensors 0/0/0/1 DCR 0 PPV 0
Maint Life 1.57 Years MSP 20 AFR 20% IFR 0.3% 1YR 9 5YR 140 Max Repair 100 MSP
Kapitan vtorogo ranga Control Rating 1 SCI
Intended Deployment Time: 15 days Morale Check Required
KB Khimavtomatika RD-0253 (1) Power 5.9 Fuel Use 401.13% Signature 5.89 Explosion 11%
Fuel Capacity 14,000 Litres Range 1.3 billion km (24 days at full power)
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
Ptichka Class
Ptichka class Geological Survey Craft 500 tons 22 Crew 169.6 BP TCS 10 TH 6 EM 0
589 km/s Armour 1-5 Shields 0-0 HTK 3 Sensors 0/0/0/1 DCR 0 PPV 0
Maint Life 1.62 Years MSP 21 AFR 20% IFR 0.3% 1YR 9 5YR 141 Max Repair 100 MSP
Kapitan vtorogo ranga Control Rating 1 SCI
Intended Deployment Time: 1 months Morale Check Required
KB Khimavtomatika RD-0253 (1) Power 5.9 Fuel Use 401.13% Signature 5.89 Explosion 11%
Fuel Capacity 33,000 Litres Range 3 billion km (58 days at full power)
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
10K Class
10K class Geological Survey Craft 500 tons 22 Crew 171.3 BP TCS 10 TH 6 EM 0
590 km/s Armour 1-5 Shields 0-0 HTK 3 Sensors 0/0/0/1 DCR 0 PPV 0
Maint Life 1.71 Years MSP 21 AFR 20% IFR 0.3% 1YR 9 5YR 130 Max Repair 100 MSP
Kapitan vtorogo ranga Control Rating 1 SCI
Intended Deployment Time: 2 months Morale Check Required
KB Khimavtomatika RD-0253 (1) Power 5.9 Fuel Use 401.13% Signature 5.89 Explosion 11%
Fuel Capacity 39,000 Litres Range 3.5 billion km (68 days at full power)
Geological Survey Sensors (1) 1 Survey Points Per Hour
This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
(https://i.imgur.com/ushdU7u.png)
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Morale is important or the points generated will be lower. Plus for a role-play reason, do you want to have your crew becoming psychotic while doing their missions?
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It looks like these ships are designed only for quick jaunts out to the asteroid belt, scan a couple of rocks, and come home. The fuel load in each case is about enough that the ship can fly out and then turn around once the deployment clock runs out.
Usually you wouldn't do this since even meager NTE ships can have months or years of endurance easily, but in this case I think the OP is modeling after the Buran-class orbiter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)) which had a 15-20 day mission profile i.e. deployment time, so this is purely an RP design.
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the later design could carry out survey mission to saturn and back, so in general I got good mileage out of these for such small ships.